.-=Mark Elliott said to Gary Saffer on 02-03-97=-.
> ME>It was kinda strange, I'd go in to ride with the service and they'd
> ME>say "Man, you shoulda been here yesterday!  We had 14 runs in 12
> ME>hours and 4 of them were MVA aand two others were codes."  Then we'd
> ME>do paper work and clean the station and wash the ambulance and watch
> ME>TV for the next 18 hours.  Then I'd go home and on the way home the
> ME>tones would start dropping and I'd sit there listening to them work
> ME>the calls.
> 
> This is known as the curse of the observer. 
> 
.-=End of Quote=-.
Or more plainly......"Third Rider Syndrome"

Robert Wilkin
EMT-P
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